Thursday, October 04, 2007

A couple of weeks ago a Wild Card Brett Favre rookie card with the 1000 stripe sold on eBay for 2 grand. That's pretty outrageous for a card from the era of the never stopping printing presses, but the combination of a scarce parallel and the rookie card of a record breaking QB makes for a hobby gem. I recently found this pack in a dollar box full of el cheapo packs. For a buck I figured it was well worth a gamble. The set is only about 160 cards so even a common Favre rookie is a reasonable 1:12 packs or so.

No Favres and no stripes, but I do have the core of a pretty good Tecmo Bowl team. I just need to trade "Chris" Everett and Dave Kreig for another pass rusher and a decent cornerback and I'll beat anybody with this roster. It's probably just as well that I didn't pull a Favre, this pack was abused. Quite a few dinged corners and the Blair Thomas card is pretty messed up. His stats are messed up too, did you know he had 204 pass receptions in 1990? Marvin Harrison eat your heart out. I'm seriously going to go play some Tecmo Bowl now, I can't wait to run all over people with Albert Bentley. Forget the Georgia Lottery, this is the most fun a dollar can buy.